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Off Grid, Solar

Micro Wind Turbines – Without The Hot Air

Posted on June 6, 2018July 31, 2019 by Liam Obrien

06
Jun

Following up on our series of myth-busting posts we come to the second most asked question: Why don’t you have a wind turbine? Oh, let me count the reasons why… Part of the issue is the physics of how a wind turbine works. While they work great at the Megawatt (that’s 1 million watts) […]

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Batteries, Solar

Top 5 Issues with Nickel-Iron (NiFe) Batteries

Posted on April 21, 2018July 31, 2019 by Liam Obrien

21
Apr

I get asked a fair amount on both the Youtube channel and in email’s why we don’t use NiFe batteries or if there are any advantages to using them over the lithium-ion EV batteries that we use. My current view is that NiFe batteries provide almost no extra benefits for a lot of extra downsides, […]

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